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Adjustable B ail for E arthen Crooks.

No. 236,352. Patented lan. 4,1881.

WITNESSES INVENTORS fig ATTORNEY MPETERS. PNOTO-LITHOGHAPHER; WASHbNGTDN D C 'NrrE rates A'reivr RICHARD H. OSGOOD AND JAMES C. BLAIR, OF COLUMBUS, OHIO, ASSIGN- ORS OF ONE-THIRD TO JOSEPH GIBBARD, OF SAME PLACE.

ADJUSTABLE BAIL FOR EARTHEN CROOKS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 236,352, dated January 4., 1881.

Application filed November 13, 1880.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, R. H. OSGOOD and JAMES C. BLAIR, of Columbus, in the county of Franklin and State of Ohio, have invented a new and valuable Improvement in Adjustable Bails for Earthen Crooks, and we do hereby declare that the following; is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon.

Figure l of the drawings is a perspective view of my device applied, and Fig. 2is a perspective detail view.

This invention relates to bails or handles to be applied to crooks, pans, &c.

The invention consists in the construction hereinafter described.

In the drawings hereto annexed, A represents an open ring. B B represent ears, having each one end turned upon itself, forming a tube, a. Near the other end of said ears, and at the same side with tube a, is a lug, b, projecting outward and downward, forming a catch. The ends I) of ears B B have perforations 0. Fig. 2 shows another form of these ears B, in which the catch or lug bis punched out from the body of the ear and then formed (Model) as above described, leaving a slot, (1. C repo resents a handle having hooked ends 0 e.

In use the ring A is to be slipped through tubes a a, so as to bring the ears upon opposite sides thereof. The handle is hooked into the ends of perforated ears B B, and the ring A is sprung around the crock, pan, or other article needing a handle. The catches I) are then made to gripe the edge of the article held or a shoulder thereon, and the whole will be secure.

In case of breakage the bail can be readily applied to another article.

The various parts of this device can be made of any suitable material.

\Vhat we claim is- As an improvement in bails for earthenware vessels, an ear having a tube, a, and a catch,

1), cut out of the body of the ear, substai'itially as set forth.

In testimony that we claim the above we have hereunto subscrihedour names in the presence of two witnesses.

RICHARD H. OSGOOD. JAMES C. BLAIR.

Witnesses WILLIAM 1?. BROWN, W. H. FORD. 

